Lean and Agile - Issue 10 15th March 2021

Intro

Apologies - It's been a while

We have spent a lot of time across the last few weeks building a community for our users and regular coaching sessions. At the same time, we have created Improvecamp a regular Friday 4pm meetup for anyone who is working on improving Public services. With lightning talks, panels, etc it is a chance to hear some interesting speakers and ask questions, and network with your peers. Give it a try here every Friday https://www.airmeet.com/e/cec969f0-7154-11eb-b144-1f312adc16d9. Have a look at some of the past speaker sessions.

Events

Airmeet: Success Lounge - Engage Process User Community

Are you an Engage User? Why not come along to success labs? Date & Time

2nd March 2021, 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

Session Description

Success Lab is a chance to cover off any questions you have about Engage Process and how to use it or best practices. We will look to demonstrate features and give some tips on use. This will be an open session so please bring your problems and challenges or just come along to hear what is covered and meet other users.

Continuous Improvement

Public sector porkies – 10 years of lying up the hierarchy | Centre For Public Impact (CPI)

At the Centre for Public Impact, it’s important to us to share stories from frontline workers and government practitioners wherever possible in their own words. We’ve taken the rare decision to anonymously publish the story of this former Policy and Performance Officer for a local authority in the UK to allow them to speak freely without fear of reprisal for the challenges they face.

I spent 10 years of my life writing. I wrote neighbourhood plans, partnership strategies, the Local Area Agreement, stretch targets, the Sustainable Community Strategy, sub regional infrastructure plans, funding bids, monitoring documents, the Council Plan and service plans. These documents describe the performance of local government and its partners.

Ideas

The Art of Strategy: Wardley Mapping Examples | by Erik Schön | Medium

What is strategy? Why do you need it? How do you do it? And, how can you be more certain to succeed? The Art of Strategy provides timeless answers to these eternal questions. It is a modern reading of Sun Tzu’s Art of War using the lenses of strategists John Boyd and Simon Wardley ( swardley ).

Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge

Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future.

Video

(20) Improvecamp #5 - Translating local government speak - The challenge of engagement - YouTube

ImproveCamp a new weekly event (FRIDAY 4PM)for people working on improving public services. Sign up to the mailing list to be notified about the events and when content from the event is published http://bit.ly/improvecamp The events will be weekly and are networking and discussion focussed.

Join us for Improvecamp number 5 with 3 very special people from Dorset Council Matt Prosser - Chief Executive Officer Laura Miller - Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health Lisa Trickey - Service Manager Digital and Design. It's great to host this conversation Translating Local Government speak- the challenge of engagement! To chat with our CEX about what barriers we need to break down, how we do it and does it work? Member and officer points of view can often align but opinions on the delivery can be very different...

Please do sign up to ImproveCamp and come along to meet other people working for the public good and improvement of services. We are open to all sectors and disciplines across the public and private sector.

We aim to provide real networking events with great content not webinars. Sign up now http://bit.ly/improvecamp

(20) Living with bipolar - Improvecamp 6 James Cattell, Janet Hughes and hosted by Sam Villis - Hamster! - YouTube

Join us for Improvecamp number 6 with James Cattell, Janet Hughes and hosted by Sam Villis. A brilliant session on living with Bipolar disorder. Turns out to be surprising hard to sex a tortoise, version 0.2. How I live with bipolar affective disorder (plus dyslexia and ADHD). This is an updated version of a talk I gave at 300 Seconds in 2014. I'll compare and contrast what I said then and what I know now.

We aim to provide real networking events with great content not webinars. Sign up now http://bit.ly/improvecamp

(20) ImproveCamp #4 - Professor Joe MacDonald NHS Triumph and Disaster - How to be the difference - YouTube

ImproveCamp a new weekly event for people working on improving public services. Sign up to the mailing list to be notified about the events and when content from the event is published http://bit.ly/improvecamp The events will be weekly and are networking and discussion focussed. We are delighted to have Professor Joe MacDonald speak about NHS Triumph and Disaster - How to be the difference.

We aim to provide real networking events with great content not webinars. Sign up now http://bit.ly/improvecamp

(20) Improvecamp #3 Kit Collingwood talks about the last 13 months at the Royal Borough of Greenwich - YouTube

The events will be weekly and are networking and discussion focussed.

We are delighted to have Kit Collingwood from Royal Borough of Greenwich fit a sh**tload of content into a 15 minute lightning talk. Hear about 13 months work in this talk, a great overview of some impressive things happening at Greenwich.

Full slides can be accessed here https://docs.google.com/presentation/... Excerpt of the slides below.

(20) ImproveCamp #2 - Open Source in the NHS with Kevin Monk from Sard JV - YouTube

We are delighted to have Kevin Monk from Sard JV talking about open source and the NHS. Kevin is managing director of SARD JV and Mango Swiss, the software company responsible for building the SARD system. Prior to forming Mango Swiss in 2007, he was technical director for an international sports animation company.

Kevin graduated as an electronics engineer in 2001 and started his career as a principal engineer at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory before moving into the private sector. He built his first website when he was 14, before Google even existed, and has never looked back.

(20) Improvecamp #1 Experiments in work wellbeing - Sam Villis - ImproveCamp - Lightning Talk - YouTube

ImproveCamp is a new weekly event for people working on improving public services. Sign up to the mailing list to be notified about the events and when content from the event is published http://bit.ly/improvecamp

The events will be weekly and are networking and discussion focussed.

We are delighted to have Sam Villis from MHCLG do this first event on a topic that is so important to all of us right now our own mental health. Sam talks about her personal Experiments in Work Wellbeing. To let Sam introduce it 'I've learned that looking after my wellbeing is a constant case of trial and error, and though you've probably had way too much wellness advice over the past year, my advice is to start small experiments in your wellbeing, and offer some examples from my life.'

Access the presentation here https://drive.google.com/file/d/178Xo...